EUROPE-PH News

January 25, 2015
From rails to ports, poor infrastructure planning burdens Pinoys

The train car is full to the brim; if the idiom “bursting at the seams” were literal, the coach’s doors would have been busted by now.

January 24, 2015
Crime volumes fall after gov’t gets its act together

The number of criminal incidents in the Philippines fell last year, thanks to government efforts to get its act together after it received criticism early to the middle part of the year.

January 18, 2015
Business sees Charter change as key to sustained growth

Business sector representatives insisted that amendments to the economic provisions of the Constitution remain critical for sustaining growth beyond 2016, and noted that the administration risks losing sight of priorities as it gears up for 2015 with a raft of economic reform bills.

January 15, 2015
Biz groups raise eyebrows over non-working days for papal visit

The five-day visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines, which started Thursday, is much anticipated by the Filipino faithful that the government declared three special non-working days in Metro Manila.

January 15, 2015
Thailand prepares for ASEAN Integration

If ASEAN is to avoid the middle-income trap, each ASEAN country has to invest in infrastructure. This is especially true for the Philippines where basically no major infrastructure projects have flourished for years, if not decades.

January 11, 2015
Stronger economic growth seen in next 2 yrs

For the Philippine trade chief, 2014 was " a good pause " for the expected " strong charge " in the last year and a half of the Aquino administration.

January 06, 2015
Cargo rush on ahead of Nazarene feast, Papal visit

THE GOVERNMENT has called on the private sector to pull out as much cargo this week from the Port of Manila ahead of the visit of Pope Francis next week, and the Feast of the Black Nazarene this Friday.

January 02, 2015
European firm plans to invest in coconut water for export

A European company plans to invest in the Philippines for the export of coconut water.

December 28, 2014
More aggressiive push for reforms in 2015 sought

Local and foreign business groups want a more aggressive push for reforms in the last year and half of the Aquino administration and the fast-tracking of crucial infrastructure projects, to sustain the country's economic growth.

December 22, 2014
PHL manufacturing, agri big winners in EU zero-tariff

The country's manufacturing and agriculture sectors are the sectors expected to benefit most out of the recent decision of the European Union (EU) to include the country in its list of zero-tariff exports, according to business groups.

December 22, 2014
Pag-IBIG officials, members vow integrity, professionalism

Pag-IBIG Fund president and chief executive officer Darlene Marie B. Berberabe recently led the corporate-wide simultaneous recitation and signing of the Integrity Pledge among Fund officers and employees in line with the agency's celebration of its 34th anniversary last December 14, and as a testament that its workforce strongly believes that a public office is a public trust.

December 22, 2014
Businessmen tap the power of the sun

Solar technology is now shining in the Philippines, as some businessmen began to install solar panels on rooftops of schools, office buildings and even shopping malls, seven years after the passage of Republic Act No. 9513, or the Renewable Energy Law.